r68/new version: What's thiiiiss?

Cool, there's an update. Where can I see a CHANGELOG? :D

Here: http://www.scirra.com/construct2/releases/r68

Thanks. We are quick draws? :D *High five*

Yeah that's amazing. There's only one problem unsolved : Text. With a WebGL renderer and a canvas renderer i think the only solution is texture based fonts. Problem is to make it so it works the same in Canvas and WebGL. Other than it it's all perfect.

Wow, the new renderer makes our games use fewer system resources. :) SO, less lag for my 1998 POS.

Great to see OpenGL in C2!

Not great to see IE still behind the times.

kiyoshi: Have you tried the spritefont plugin ?

Well yes i had a look at it. But the problem is: How do i import a ttf font ? Is it possible ?

Oh, ok i realised how the plugin works. That's ok for now. The problem is that the font image must be pre prepared ?

kiyoshi, the best way to do this is to type our all the characters you will need in a photo manipulation program, adjust to make sure they are monospaced, and crop and export to a png.

kiyoshi: Also you can google "spritefonts" I guess there are a few already freely available.

But further questions and discussions about the plugin should be taken directly in the plugin's topic nevertheless.

Kiyoshi, maybe we are working on a similar game. <img src="smileys/smiley2.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

I suppose even if we set WebGL as a default, if you can still turn it off then you have the option of using the old Canvas 2D renderer with layered text. It comes at a high price though, you lose a lot of performance, so I think it's best just to consider designing your games so text is always on top.

Well in some situations text may be rendered bellow something like text fade effects, star wars text effect etc. But it depends of how you're doing it.

kiyoshi: In those cases I guess you would have to fade them out first or during the fade effect (playing on their opacity property).